Engineering Manager Grid Automation UK
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A Snapshot of Your Day
Being part of the Grid Automation team as a Engineering Manager you have the full responsibility for successful execution of engineering substation secondary system in AC substations. You will manage and lead teams in charge of technical solutions design, fulfilling customer specifications and engineering standards, checking and ensuring compliance over the domains, obeying laws and regulations. You will plan and allocate resources and budgets to engineering activities, committing workforce proficiency and capability to conduct the assignments in time and quality. Teamwork with Bid Managers, Project Managers and suppliers in the field of secondary systems is your key to success.
How You'll Make an Impact
• Protection, Automation and Control system specification handling for AC projects
• Allocating resources according to capabilities and availability
• Ensuring all customer functional and technical requirements are fulfilled
• Taking corrective action in the event of divergences from the schedule.
• Providing technical support to rest of business unit team where requested, including preparation of technical and commercial customer offers and subcontractors
• Implementing Continues improvement program for engineering solutions, standardizing and digitalizing lean engineering processes
• Researching new technical solutions for secondary systems
• Supervision and quality assurance of engineering team including subcontractors/suppliers during project execution
• Taking responsibility for quality, time, and costs of own results
• Coaching and mentoring team members to embrace teamwork spirit
What You bring
• Completed degree in electrical, electronic or equivalent engineering, automation or similar.
• Extensive professional experience in secondary systems engineering
• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering standards applicable to the local market
• Working experience with cubicle assembly factories, protection and automation design, testing and commissioning teams
• Leadership experience with intercultural teams.
• Deep knowledge of secondary systems manufacturers leaders in local market
• Experience working in brownfield and greenfield projects for secondary systems in HV substations
• Digital solution understanding and previous experience. Working knowledge of tools needed for electrical design, parameterization and configuration of secondary systems solutions.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 98,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we're also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is motivated by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
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